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To the editor: You have to wonder when an administrative law judge admits that a fish farm would cause “some pollution” in the AuSable, but tells us we just have to suck it up because it’s needed for “development.” (Two whole jobs, wow!)

Did the judge believe that two new jobs would outweigh the dozens of businesses and hundreds of jobs that depend on the AuSable being clean and attracting fishermen from all over the state, not to mention from out of state?

Our lakes and rivers may be Crawford County’s single biggest asset. For years we’ve promoted the AuSable as one of the best trout streams in the whole nation. Once “some pollution” starts causing algae, which use up the oxygen which is needed for the fish to thrive and breed, there goes the AuSable’s great reputation. No one’s going to promote Grayling by saying, “Yeah, I fished the mucky AuSable and got half the fish I did last year.”